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Given the massive scale of Russian and Chinese strike drone production, the U.S. needs more interceptors in the price range of Sting and Surveyor to exceed strike drones in number and to enable spreading interceptors out geographically for broader protection. Even then, affordable interceptors alone won’t cut it.
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Inside the cruel plan to fool young Latinas seeking travel into making killer drones in Russia
Young women from a dozen Latin American countries came to Russia seeking travel and opportunity with plans to break into the hospitality industry through a work exchange – and ended up manufacturing “kamikaze” drones used in Moscow’s war with Ukraine.
US ICE agents will be deployed to Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, as American officials say that killer drones could threaten the games. Director of the US major events security Tim Ayers called
The software and hardware that will control tomorrow's combat drones got a workout on January 18, as a General Atomics MQ-20 Avenger showed off its capability by autonomously intercepting a crewed aggressor aircraft in an air combat exercise.
A demonstration of Auterion's Nemyx showing drones controlled by one operator hitting multiple targets showcases a capability which may be deployed later this year.
The last time American troops would have seen Iran’s kamikaze drones was when they were attacking US military bases in the Middle East. But US soldiers are now being armed with them. Or at least, with something almost identical to the Shahed drones.
The Abraham Lincoln reached its operating area near Iranian waters on the evening of January 25 and is now in a position to project power toward the Persian Gulf, with separate U.S. transport ships reportedly moving specialized missile‑defense equipment and a THAAD battery to Israel to reinforce regional air and missile defenses.